Hoping that next week I will be able to resume the usual postings and finally review three important books of 2012, including two identical titles but with opposite gender title character leads and authors and what is my top sf of the year, I would like to remind everyone of these three fantastic series debuts of 2012. All sophisticated, all with great promise for much more and all very well written and of course top 25 titles of 2012.

"An epic fantasy exploring themes of
conflict, loyalty and religious faith. Vaelin Al Sorna, Brother of the
Sixth Order, has been trained from childhood to fight and kill in
service to the Faith. Ensnared in an unjust war by a king possessed of
either madness or genius, Vaelin seeks to answer the question that will
decide the fate of the Realm: …who is the one who waits?"

"Most of the time the
Moontide Bridge lies deep below the sea, but every 12 years the tides
sink and the bridge is revealed, its gates open for trade. The
Magi are hell-bent on ruling this new world, and for the last two
Moontides they have led armies across the bridge on 'crusades' of
conquest. Now the third Moontide is almost here and, this time,
the people of the East are ready for a fight ... but it is three
seemingly ordinary people that will decide the fate of the world"

"Twenty eight florins a month is a huge price to pay, for a man to stand between you and the Wild.

Twenty
eight florins a month is nowhere near enough when a wyvern's jaws snap
shut on your helmet in the hot stink of battle, and the beast starts to
rip the head from your shoulders. But if standing and fighting is hard,
leading a company of men - or worse, a company of mercenaries - against
the smart, deadly creatures of the Wild is even harder.

It takes all the advantages of birth, training, and the luck of the devil to do it.

The
Red Knight has all three, he has youth on his side, and he's determined
to turn a profit. So when he hires his company out to protect an Abbess
and her nunnery, it's just another job. The abby is rich, the nuns are
pretty and the monster preying on them is nothing he can't deal with.